Feeling Queer Jurisprudence: Injury, Intimacy, Identity (Social Justice)

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This book draws on the analytic and political dimensions of queer, alongside the analytic and political usefulness of emotion, to navigate legal interventions aimed at progressing the rights of LGBT people. Scholars, activists, lawyers, and judges concerned with eliminating violence and discrimination against LGBT people have generated passionate conversations about pursuing law reform to make LGBT injuries, intimacies, and identities visible, while some challenge the ways legal systems marginalise queer minorities. Senthorun Sunil Raj powerfully contributes to these ongoing conversations by using emotion as an analytic frame to reflect on the ways case law seeks to "progress" the intimacies and identities of LGBT people from positions of injury. This book catalogues a range of cases from Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom to unpack how emotion shapes the decriminalisation of homosexuality, hate crime interventions, anti-discrimination measures, refugee protection, and marriage equality. While emotional enactments in pro-LGBT jurisprudence enable new forms of recognition and visibility, they can also work, paradoxically, to cover over queer intimacies and identities. Raj innovatively shows that reading jurisprudence through emotions can make space in law to affirm, rather than disavow, intimacies and identities that queer conventional ideas about "LGBT progress", without having to abandon legal pursuits to protect LGBT people. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of human rights law, gender and sexuality studies, and socio-legal theory.


  • | Author: Senthorun Sunil Raj
  • | Publisher: Routledge
  • | Publication Date: January 14, 2020
  • | Number of Pages: 168 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover
  • | ISBN-10: 0815356501
  • | ISBN-13: 9780815356509
Author:
Senthorun Sunil Raj
Publisher:
Routledge
Publication Date:
January 14, 2020
Number of pages:
168 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN-10:
0815356501
ISBN-13:
9780815356509